Who’s Done It?
Join over 500 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.

Simon Ru
’03, M.B.A. ’11
Founder and CEO, UpNest (acquired by Realtor.com)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022

Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023

Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022

Lauri Kibby
M.B.A. ’86
Co-Founder and CFO, Kings Garden; Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Endourage

Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs

James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi

Lizi Feng
’13
Co-Founder, DrVigo and Uni Precision, Inc.

Giles Templeman
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto

Shihui Mao
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto

Santiago Freyria
M.B.A. ’20
Founder, ExVivoGen

Linda Chow
M.B.A.’19
Co-Founder and CEO, CaringDr

Lindsey Hoell
Co-founder and CEO, Dispatch Goods

Yao-Chieh “Jeff” Hu
M.Eng ’20
Co-Founder and CEO, Turing Chain

Sol Eun
M.Eng ’20
Founder and CEO, UI Flow

Matthew Cooper
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Carmenta Bioscience (acquired by Progenity)

Ryan Chan
’13
Founder and CEO, UpKeep

Farshad Ghaffari
’99
Co-Founder, Entreda (acquired by Smarsh)

Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Erin Mastopietro
’10
Co-Founder, Dope Dog

Michael Olson
’91, M.S. ’92
Co-Founder and CSO, Cloudera
Pledge fulfilled in 2020

Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI

Ludwig Schoenack
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Drivekyte

Wesley Jackson
’00, M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’06
Founder and CEO, Valitor Inc

Atanas Bakalov
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, Knowdeon

Rahul Deedwania
’10
Co-Founder, BreakoutIQ

Amy Fan
M.B.A. ’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-Founder, Twentyeight Health

Ankur Nagpal
’09
Founder & CEO, Teachable

Jessica Green
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’01
Co-Founder and CEO of Phylagen Inc

Venkat Venkatasubramanian
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, SwiftMotion

Will Huang
’17, M.Eng. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Pengram

Andy Yang
’00
CEO, Indiegogo

Art Amador
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and COO, EquBot

Jeremy Hammer
’19
Founder, CatalistX

Emily Walling
M.B.A. ’08
Head of Marketing, Portfolia

Saswat Mishra
E.M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, California Memory Technologies Inc

David Pastewka
’12
CEO, Drapr; Co-Founder, Twindom

John McMahon
M.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’73
Chief Marketing Officer, Allium Vitalis

Benjamin Chang
’88
Glint, Head of Information Security & Compliance

Jason Bellet
’14
Co-Founder, Eko

Peter Wysinski
’14
Co-Founder, AxleHire; Co-Founder & CEO, kSense

Kevin Ubilla
’16
Founder, Omni Astrobiotics

Matthew Sinks
’15
Program China, UnBank Ventures

Shawn Tsao
’11
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019

Joyce Arellano-Bravo
’98
Co-Founder, WeSolve

Dinesh Kumar
M.B.A. ’17
COO, Promaxo

Dave Alpert
’78, M.Arch. ’86
CEO and Co-Founder, Geopogo

Jason Wang
’09
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square); Venture Partner, Beluga Capital

Laurie Peterson
M.B.A. ’11
Founder, Build & Imagine (acquired); Founder and CEO, Inkbrite

Dhawal Mujumdar
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)

Charles Huang
’93
Co-Founder, RedOctane (acquired by Activision); Co-Founder, Indigo 7
Pledge fulfilled in 2014

Juan Pablo Ferrer
’01
Co-founder, Mevoked (acquired by WellBrain)

Richard Din
’08
Co-Founder, Caviar (acquired by Square)
Pledge fulfilled in 2019

James Brear
’89
President & CEO, Veriflow (acquired by VMware)

Kevin Blake
M.B.A. ’17
Founder and Managing Partner, Sierra Verde Capital

Paul Yeh
’01
Partner, Conductive Ventures

Weijie “Claire” Li
’14
Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest

Nelson Hyde Chick
’94
Founder and Chief Adrenaline Officer, Foil Flyer

Prayag Narula
M.I.M.S. ’12
Founder and President, LeadGenius Inc

Rishi Chopra
’02
Software Engineer, IBM

Niket Desai
’09
Founder PADCo; Co-Founder, Punchd (acquired by Google)

Richard “Leke” Raji
M.Eng. ’19
Founder, Mistove

Bradford Crist
M.B.A. ’19
Product Manager, Volta Charging

Christian Keil
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, d.rect; Co-Founder, The Tuesday Company

Luc Ibata
Founder & CEO, WeSolve World Inc.

Kenny To
’08
Founding Engineer, Rubrik Inc

Josh Appleman
M.I.M.S. ’16
Founder, Tellaport

Kevin Chou
’02
Chairman, Forte Labs and Gen.G esports; Co-Founder, Kabam
Pledge fulfilled in 2015

Jeffery Alvarez
M.B.A. ’14
Vice President, Product & Operations, Potrero Medical; Co-Founder, Naya Health

Deepak Gupta
Managing Partner, Blue Bears Ventures

Bastien Beauchamp
Co-Founder and CEO, !important safety

Mark Velednitsky
M.S. ’16
Founder and CEO, MultiMeet

Amanda Pouchot
’08
Co-Founder and CEO, Together10; Co-Founder, Levo

Caroline Winnett
M.B.A. ’90
Executive Director, SkyDeck

Rajiv Appana
M.B.A. ’13
Co-Founder, SpinWheel Inc

Tomas Campos
’00
CEO and Co-Founder, Spinwheel Inc

Harsha Raghavan
’94
Managing Partner, Convergent Finance LLP

Charlene Son Rigby
M.B.A. ’00
Chief Business Officer, Fabric Genomics

Ezra Roizen
M.B.A. ’04
General Manager, Advsr LLC